14. They took along every kind of animal, tame and wild, including the birds.
15. Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,
16. just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.
17-18. For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.
19-20. Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were about seven metres below the surface of the water.
21. Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth.
22-23. The Lord destroyed everything that breathed. Nothing was left alive except Noah and the others in the boat.
24. A hundred and fifty days later, the water started going down.